Features

• Kode KDE Kindly, Kan You?  by Jason Mott
  Help Linux conquer the desktop with your own KDE app.
  
• Emacs: the Free Software IDE  by Charles Curley
  Not just for text editing—Emacs is the IDE that's been there all along.
  
• Mediator/Python  by Doug Farrell
  Sure it's no system for a basis of government, but Python can help build smart dialog boxes.
  

Interview

• Python 2.2 Q&A with Guido van Rossum, Creator of Python  by Wesley J. Chun
  No full monty, just Guido's honest opinions.
  

Indepth

• The OSCAR Revolution  by Richard Ferri
  Making clusters easy to build for the nonprogrammer.
  

Toolbox

• Kernel Korner   A NATural Progression  by David A. Bandel
  
• At the Forge   Zope Page Templates  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Cooking with Linux   Programming Life!  by Marcel Gagné
  
• Paranoid Penguin   BestCrypt: Cross-Platform Filesystem Encryption  by Mick Bauer
  
• GFX Silicon Grail RAYZ  by Robin Rowe
  

Columns

• Focus on Software   Striking a Nerve  by David A. Bandel
  
• Focus on Embedded Systems   Embedded Systems Conference 2002  by Rick Lehrbaum
  
• Geek Law   Bad Law  by Lawrence Rosen
  
• Linux for Suits   Identity from the Inside Out  by Doc Searls
  

Reviews

• Hewlett-Packard x4000 Workstation  by Thad Beier
  

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